Hotel California

++If you want to see Obamacare in action, you should look at coveredca.com for Covered California's news on its enrollments at the end of October. It seems the West Coast has this covered and their website is now humming. Over 360,000 people enrolled.

++Washington Monthly this afternoon says that one of the spanners in the works of the President's fix to ACA is that state insurance officers have to approve and Washington State, the third best performing exchange will not. But for all the Confederate states, it may work to pacify people.

++This past week I was disappointed in hearing an NPR interview with Governor Jerry Brown, a politician I have followed for years first as Governor Moonbeam,later as a Presidential candidate and admire him for his  different incarnations. The interviewer was nasty and shrill,basically arguing that California is now the poorest state because of Jerry Brown and that he is a Governor of a large one party state. Brown was gracious in his questions but NPR never asked him any questions about how he broke the logjam in California , which restored funding for education or how California made Obamacare work. Jerry Brown enjoys a large approval rating and has embarked with the Pacific Northwest,including British Columbia to form a pact to combat climate change. It seems to me that NPR should have treated the interview as an opportunity to explore why California seems now to be working. 

++Remember this about all the media coverage about the flaws in Obamacare. All the moderators and reporters are white, predominantly male,and wealthy.All of them already have very nice health insurance. None of the networks care about people who are poor or lower middle-class. All the networks are owned by a few corporations. None of them care about you or your family.